Today's 'Wordle' answer will take a lot of dedicated daily players by surprise, but don't worry - it's not a mistake.

That number was whittled down to 2,309 by the NYT after it bought Wordle in January 2022, and then increased by an unknown amount over the next couple of years, with the addition of solutions such as SNAFU (game #659) and OOMPH (#1662).

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